While working on remastering the Smiths’ catalogue, he texted Morrissey and Andy Rourke of their music, “you can really hear the love in it.” He reveals that in September 2008, he met with Morrissey in a Manchester pub, and during the course of their meeting they began “talking about the possibility of the band re-forming.” Marr writes, “For four days it was a very real prospect.” He even talked to his band at the time, the Cribs, “about the possibility of [him] playing some shows with the Smiths.”

He continued to talk to Morrissey after the meeting, and they planned to meet up again, but after he and the Cribs went to Mexico, he says there was a sudden “radio silence” from Morrissey. “Our communication ended, and things went back to how they were and how I expect they always will be,” he writes.

The Smiths broke up following the release of 1987’s Strangeways, Here We Come. Since then, most rumors of a possible reunion have been shot down by the band’s members. In a 2009 interview with BBC Radio 2, Morrissey said, “People always ask me about reunions and I can't imagine why. It baffles me.” Marr acknowledges these reports in the memoir excerpt, writing, “There had been rumours for years that the Smiths were about to re-form, and they were always untrue. I had never pursued any offer.”